Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-25
COST OF GREAT STRIKES.
Figures TINT 3Iske One Ask "Do Loci
GUS Paye'

GUS Pay"
The following statistical article, copied
from Bradstreet's, February -, COM
mends Itself to the attention OF all
employees and employers. 1t is
IN order to make more money
that employers screw WAGES down;
it is in order 10 make mere none that
workingmen undertake 10 screw wages
up. AS money is the thing both parties
are after, the money aspect Of their quar-
reis ought 10 be studied carefully.
Bradstreet's says:
ESTIMATED LOSSES or WAGES TO STRIKERS.
(January I February lO)
Port New York, 'ioLgsho. emen, boat
Boot and shoe ia tory employees $4,000
ports .-.,>, ,C. ,...t 465 OCO
New York and New Jersey railway
freight. hacdlers -: ~ 10000
Tobacco and cigar factory operatives 5000
Textile (csrpet and coTdage} employees $1,000
Iron and steel mill employ es........... IL 600
Glass factory employees. -.......-...- 5000
Miscellaneous. Observation-Disclosures. $50 900
emp'o7es .,.,.e .: - 81 $4,000
The estma ed total loss OF wages by
ABOUT Sc, 0OU Industrial employees,
thrown out of work through scarcity
others, W. hin forty days past Is 25O,OOO
Grand total OF wages sacrificed
since January l, lcSI...........-..S 5000 COO
Disregardlng the more eXtravagant
prices charged for coal ut retail, which
are not indicative of what coal purchased
within thirty days mas cost the consumer,
and the net increased total so expended
is placed at 800, OOOi the loss to coal
shippers at nearby Jersey points through
having to guard docks and property, and
unusual expenses due to inefficient labor
and other causes, has been calculated ss
DOT falling below 300 600; additional
OUTLAWS forced on transatlantic, coastwise
and South and Central American line
steamers, not considering the heavy
losses occasioned by decreased freight Of
ferings, have not been less than 500, 900.
Already thirty-six cOastwise and traus-
atlantic steamers which have sailed have
been delayed an average of over
three days and half each, and
twenty three steamers, which had not
sailed February 10, had been de
layed an average of over six days each.
All of these elements must be noted in
taking account of actual losses coca
stoned by the strikes of the past six
weeks Much has been said in some of
the daily journals of the money value of
the interrupted domestic and export trade.
at the port of New York, some estimating
it during the latter half of January at
81, 100000 per day. There is some very
direct evidence, VIZ, the exceptional de-
cline of $3.50 900 IN the value Of do
nestle produce exported from New York
compared with the last week in January.
Neither is it unlikely that the current
week will show a loss of nearly one-half
the sum mentioned, at least $1,000, 900.
Within two weeks ended February 10 at
New York city, where the greatest dam
age to general trade has been effected by
labor disturbances, the bank clearings
have declined about $1,000. 900, roughly
calculated.
ESTIMATED TOTAL LOSSES FROM STRIKES
sISCE JANUARY l.
Total of wages sacrificed by striking
ToLal of wages sacrificed through en-
forced suspense IN IF work. .......... $4,000
Total extra amount paid for coal
through Strikes. ,..........-.... IUO,oOU
Total loss incurret by steamship com
panies through delay ......-..... 100000
Total loss to coal shippers, rious
causes named ...-..-.-.-.. co.. 100000
New York, two weeks. ''.,....... 3,SeO,O 600
The total estimated decrease in the
value of domestic trade at the port of
New York due to strikes, as indicated by
the New York bank cleari gs, may be
placed ct S25, 100000.
The net decrease in total clearings at
New York city within two weeks is about
S37 100000 against a net decrease for the
like two weeks in 1886 of but 81 900, 900,
an increase of $50 600 900 in 1885 and a
decrease of S26 900 900 in 1884, when
trade was declining. In the above esti
mate but tWo-thirds of the decreased
clearings of a fortnight have BEEN at
tributed to the influence of labor troubles.